The Healers Journal

HJ: You are unlimited. Anything you can dream can be created or achieved. However, you are SO powerful that whatever you believe your limits to be, become real. Therefore your perceived limits are just that. Perceptions and nothing else and they can be dissolved just as easily as they were formed.

– Truth

Think big
By Tom Murcko

“The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

Internal and external forces conspire to make us think small. Fear of failure. Fear of social disapproval. Lack of confidence, imagination, inspiration. A world filled with meandering, half-lived lives that shape our beliefs about what life can be. Colleagues, friends and family who discourage our boldness because it makes them look like cowards and failures, or because they don’t want us to change. An environment of abundant distractions where the trivial outnumber and steal our attention away from the significant. Institutions that steer us toward the frivolous and the trifling because big thinking threatens to disrupt and disempower them.

HJ: You are an aspect of the divine and the divine can never transgress. Therefore to feel guilt and shame is only a misperception of what is. Even our darkest moments hold great wisdom for ourselves and others. So let go and remerge into the pure love that you are.

– Truth

How To Heal Your Guilt And Shame

By Mary O’Malley | Inspire Me Today

A woman in one of my groups shared her experience of overwhelming guilt and shame. Four years ago, she rescued a puppy that had deep fears, probably because of abuse. Several months later, it began lunging at people on the street and actually nipped a woman. After extensive training, the dog has come a long way and has not exhibited this kind of behavior for quite some time. While my friend was out of town recently, the dog was being cared for by a neighbor and during a walk, it nipped an eight year old boy in the neighborhood. After learning of the incident, my friend felt so deflated and her storyteller kept saying over and over, “I should have done more training. I should have been more responsible. I should have been a better dog parent.” It did not take long for the guilty feelings to become shameful feelings, in essence, “I don’t deserve to have a dog. I am a bad person.”

HJ: Questions have the power to short circuit our normal way of thinking and often lead to insights that allows us to break free of unconscious, self-imposed limits and barriers that keep us from greater health, happiness, joy, success and abundance. Great piece below with truly powerful questions to shift your life.

– Truth

4 Questions that Will Change Your Attitude (When You Can’t Change Anything Else)

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

A peaceful person is not a person who’s always in a good situation, but rather a person who always has a good attitude in every situation.

To a great extent, we create our fate every single day, and most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own (controllable) attitude.  Life is packed full of uncontrollable events; in many situations the only thing we can control is the attitude we choose to respond with.

HJ: Flow states are magical moments of expanded awareness where we reconnect with our truest self and the pure creativity that is our essence.  And best part is you can train yourself to slip into them with a little practice.

– Truth

Flow

By Tom Murcko

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When was the last time you flowed? When you were immersed in the present, guiding each moment to the next through the unimpeded action of mind and body at the outer edge of your abilities? How beautiful, how exhilarating, how vibrantly alive was the moment?

HJ: Removing and reprogramming limiting beliefs is perhaps the most powerful thing you can do to shift your reality and your consciousness. That’s because limiting beliefs control how we perceive the world, what decisions we make, what emotions we feel and ultimately our thoughts.  Shift those and you shift everything.

– Truth

Free yourself from limiting beliefs

By Tom Murcko

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Gordon Livingston
The most secure prisons are the ones we construct for ourselves. – Henry Ford

What beliefs do you have, about yourself and the world, that constrain your present experience and impede your ability to have the future you want?

HJ: To develop condition-less compassion for others is a fast path to enlightenment. Compassion overlaps greatly with gratitude as well producing a number of beneficial effects on the mind-body-spirit triad and generally improving the conditions of ones life greatly: happiness, health, abundance and so on…

– Truth

The Daily Compassion Audit: A Self-Check to Minimise Inadvertently Causing Suffering to Others.

Dr Stan Steindl, Clinical Psychologist, Psychology Consultants Brisbane

Compassion is the sympathetic and active alleviation of suffering in others. At the other end of the spectrum is malevolence and cruelty, intentionally causing others to suffer. But what about all the murky waters in between?

HJ: Fear transformed is simply emotional energy to be used in the pursuit of something great.

– Truth

Turn Your Fear into Excitement So You Can Pursue Your Dreams

By Melissa Field | melissa-field.com | Tiny Buddha

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” ~John Lennon

When it comes to facing fear and moving past it in order to see my dreams realized, I was always advised to power through it. Do the thing that scares you, no matter how much it makes your heart pound. Take that step that makes your stomach knot up in tight balls. Do it, and power through, or else miss out on life.

HJ: This is some powerful wisdom distilled into bite sized chunks that you can start applying in your life immediately.  If you are looking for a shift, you’ve found it.  Enjoy…

– Truth

12 Little Known Laws of Mindfulness (That Will Change Your Life)

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
– Carl Jung

Mindfulness as a daily ritual is the ultimate challenge and practice.  It’s a way of living, of being, of seeing, of tapping into the full power of your humanity.

At its core, mindfulness is…

• Being aware of what’s happening in the present moment without wishing it were different
• Enjoying each pleasant experience without holding on when it changes (which it will)
• Being with each unpleasant experience without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t)

HJ: Gratitude and appreciate connect you with your innate ability to create happiness and prosperity in your life. They shift you into a perceptual frame where you see the beauty, good and abundance in all things and therefore this must be reflected in your reality. When you come from a place of abundance you create more abundance. When you come from a place of happiness you create more happiness. And so it is.

– Truth

12 Little Known Laws of Gratitude (That Will Change Your Life)

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh

Gratitude leads to greatness. It can literally turn what you have into more than enough, jobs into joy, chaos into order, uncertainty into clarity, and bring peace to an otherwise chaotic day.